Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Nehemiah 8:4
The 13 persons mentioned were probably the chief priests of the course (shift) which was at the time performing the temple service.
The 13 persons mentioned were probably the chief priests of the course (shift) which was at the time performing the temple service.
Verse Nehemiah 8:4. _STOOD UPON A PULPIT OF WOOD_] מגדל _migdal_, a _tower_, a _platform_, raised up for the purpose, to elevate him sufficiently for the people both to see and hear him; for it is sa...
II. THE SPIRITUAL REVIVAL CHAPTER 8 _ 1. The reading of the law before the water gate (Nehemiah 8:1)_ 2. A day of joy and not of mourning (Nehemiah 8:9) 3. The keeping of the feast of tabernacles...
PART IV (Nehemiah 7:73_ b_ - Nehemiah 10:39). EZRA AND THE LAW. Nehemiah 7:73 b - Nehemiah 8:12. The Reading of the Law.
EZRA THE SCRIBE STOOD ON. PULPIT OF WOOD. This lofty pulpit enabled him to be seen and to see all. Beside him were thirteen assistants who are named, all probably priests, who had duties connected wi...
PULPIT. high platform. Eng. "pulpit" from Latin. _pulpitum,_. stage of. theatre. BESIDE HIM. Thirteen priests with him: fourteen in all. AND. Some codices, with five early printed editions, omit thi...
Nehemiah 7:73; Nehemiah 7:73. The Reading of the Law This verse begins a new section in the work. The style alters. The use of the first pers. sing. is resumed in Nehemiah 12:31. The Compiler has rec...
_a pulpit of wood_ R.V. marg. Heb. _tower_. Literally -upon a tower of wood." LXX. ἐπὶ βήματος ξυλίνου, 1 Esdr. ἐπὶ τοῦ ξυλίνου βήματος. Vulg. -super gradum ligneum:" cf. -the stairs" on which the Lev...
TEXT AND VERSE-BY-VERSE COMMENT II. The Law is Read in Public, and its Ceremonies are Resumed: Chapter s 8-10 A. The Law is Read and the Feast of Booths is Kept. 1. Ezra instructs the people in the L...
_AND EZRA THE SCRIBE STOOD UPON A PULPIT OF WOOD, WHICH THEY HAD MADE FOR THE PURPOSE; AND BESIDE HIM STOOD MATTITHIAH, AND SHEMA, AND ANAIAH, AND URIJAH, AND HILKIAH, AND MAASEIAH, ON HIS RIGHT HAND;...
THE READING OF THE LAW BY EZRA 1. The street] RV 'the broad place': and so in Nehemiah 8:3; Nehemiah 8:16. THE WATER GATE] This probably led to the spring of Gihon (the Virgin's spring)....
THE *JEWS BUILD JERUSALEM’S CITY WALL AGAIN NEHEMIAH _ROBERT BRYCE AND ROBERT BETTS_ CHAPTER 8 In Nehemiah 7:6-73, Nehemiah copied the register of the first people who returned from *exile. This...
The people had finished the work on the walls of Jerusalem in the 6th month of the year (Nehemiah 6:15). The people had worked hard for 52 days. But Nehemiah had not finished his work. His next task w...
PULPIT OF WOOD. — Literally, a _tower of wood._ Fourteen persons, however, were on what is afterwards called a platform, or stair, by his side....
וַֽ יַּעֲמֹ֞ד עֶזְרָ֣א הַ סֹּפֵ֗ר עַֽל ־מִגְד
THE LAW Nehemiah 8:1 THE fragmentary nature of the chronicler's work is nowhere more apparent than in that portion of it which treats of the events immediately following on the completion of the fort...
NEW LIGHT FROM GOD'S LAW Nehemiah 8:1 Surely this was the first public Bible-reading! When will the people be again as hungry for the Word of God as these Jews who stood in the open space from early...
We now come to the second section of the Book, which gives an account of the special reading of the Law, and the reform which followed. Ezra now appears on the scene. There has been some speculation a...
_Step. Hebrew, "wooden tower." (Calmet) --- Protestants, "pulpit," (Haydock) made in the form of a cup," (Calmet) like the cior, or tribune of Solomon, 2 Paralipomenon vi. 13. --- Mosollam. We should...
(3) And he read therein before the street that was before the water gate from the morning until midday, before the men and the women, and those that could understand; and the ears of all the people we...
The Joy of the Lord I. INTRODUCTION II. THE RESULT Nehemiah 8:1-12 (NKJV) Now all the people gathered together as one man in the open square that [was] in front of the Water Gate; and they told Ezra...
By means of Ezra and Nehemiah, the law resumes its authority, and that at the people's own request, for God had prepared their hearts. Accordingly, God had gathered them together on the first day of t...
And Ezra the scribe stood upon a pulpit of wood, which they had made for the purpose; and beside him stood Mattithiah, and Shema, and Anaiah, and Urijah, and Hilkiah, and Maaseiah, on his right hand;...
_Ezra stood upon a pulpit of wood_ To raise him higher than the people; that he might be better seen and heard by them all; whence, in the Hebrew, it is called _a tower of wood:_ but it was not like o...
[THE LAW IS READ.] 1 The religious maner of reading and hearing the Law. 9 They comfort the people. 13 The forwardnesse of them to heare and be instructed. 16 They keepe the feast of Tabernacles....
And Ezra, the scribe, stood upon a pulpit of wood, a high platform with space for more than a dozen men, which they had made for the purpose; AND BESIDE HIM STOOD MATTITHIAH, AND SHEMA, AND ANAIAH, AN...
THE LAW READ AND HEARD...
THE READING OF THE LAW (vv. 1-12) We have seen at the end of chapter 6 the wall was completed, and in chapter 7 appointments were made for the proper order to be maintained in the city. Now another...
PULPIT OF WOOD: _ Heb._ tower of wood...
1-8 Sacrifices were to be offered only at the door of the temple; but praying and preaching were, and are, services of religion, as acceptably performed in one place as in another. Masters of familie...
Partly to declare their consent and concurrence with Ezra in what-he said and did; and partly that they, or some of them, might bear a part in the work....
Nehemiah 8:4 Ezra H5830 scribe H5608 (H8802) stood H5975 (H8799) platform H4026 wood H6086 made H6213 ...
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CONTENTS: The law read and explained. Feast of tabernacles restored. CHARACTERS: God, Ezra, Nehemiah. CONCLUSION: Reading the Scripture in religious assemblies is an ordinance of God whereby He is h...
Nehemiah 8:2. _Upon the first day of the seventh month,_ the day when the civil year began, reckoned from the creation of the world. Ezra began the year, like Adam, with a holy convocation. He, and ot...
_And all the people gathered themselves together as one man into the street._ THE INSTRUCTOR IN THE LAW God has evermore blessed His own Word as the chosen instrument of all revival and progress in H...
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